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Winning!

This week has seen government scrap‘pay to stay’ (which would have forced social housing tenants on higher incomes to pay market rent) and banletting agent fees (astronomical charges estate agents slapped on to the process of renting). We’ve also seen wins across RHN member groups – read this blog post to find out what else we’ve been winning, and how it was won.

MIPIM occupied!

We took on MIPIM, the world’s largest property fair, with a fun action outside the conference and the occupation of one of the student landlords who’s profiteering privatised student housing. Watch the video and read more here.

ACTION AGAINST THE HOUSING ACT

Activists from the Radical Housing Network are supporting the Axe the Housing Act campaign to stop the legislation being implemented. Groups in the network are helping to spread the word about the likely impacts, and we’re organising to prevent people being evicted as a result of rent increases or their tenancy ending because of the new law. Get in touch if you want to help!

Read and share the #StandardEvening future edition for more on how the Housing Act could affect Londoners:standardevening.com

The Radical Housing Network is made up of groups fighting for housing justice, based in London.

Housing: Groups within our network work on a wide range of housing issues, including but not limited to, private renting, social housing, squatting, access to benefits, homelessness, and co-operative housing.

Radical: We feel we are not represented by mainstream politics, and seek to organise a movement for housing justice from below, across tenure, rooted in people’s everyday housing needs. We support a diversity of tactics, including direct action.

Network: The network is a horizontal association; a “group of groups”. We connect and cooperate with each other, across tenure, within and beyond our local neighbourhoods.

"In the first half of our monthly meeting, we focus on mutual support: People talk about problems they face with their landlords, building managers or letting agents and we share our experiences and knowledge. In the past, we supported people organising residents meetings to build community amongst neighbours and to address issues collectively.

In the second half of our meeting we develop our campaign activities and follow up what is happening at the London level in terms of private renter policies and activism as well as housing struggles more generally. We do cooperate with other private renter groups for campaigning, strategy discussions and skill share.